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                    <text>Cavalier Is What You Make It
From sheer perversity, or need, I drive a street
Where you, from sheerest greed, are hustling in fine sleet.
The ice is pinging on the windshield, your thick glasses.
You take them off and hurriedly run down your prices.
The heater in the car unfogs you. On the way
It fills the frequent gaps of our not much to say.
“I’m only hustling for the money to buy contacts.”
I only pick up hustlers to improve my syntax.
No yield is either worse, or better, than who sow it.
Our bed is warm, however, and how well you know it.
“Can I stay?”
“Not if it means another ten“
Toward noon I drive you back to earn a contact lens.
Now, I need contacts too. And if I chance to hear
Celestas in ACT II of Rosenkavalier,
Their softly sleeting motif of the silver rose,
I think of you, of that real sleet, and curl my toes.

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                    <text>The Albino on Castro Street
You will not find on any Hamburg dockside
So true a gene for virtual peroxide.
The eyes aren’t pink, thanks to the contact lenses.
Who go down lists are going into frenzies.
An item for collectors, unaware
His stock in trade is that Jean Harlow hair:
His platinum American Express card,
His entrée, price tag, and his Porno Press Card.
He’ll be picked up and passed from hand to hand
By bathhouse patrons jaded with the tanned.
And if the contacts go into their case
A blood transparent stares out of his face-The vision’s red, unseeing underside
That, blind to its own presence, cannot pride
Itself on white eyelashes, see-through iris
(Which some will comment on in private diaries,
As well as on the fadeout farther south).
Nine days a wonder, then it’s hand to mouth,
Made grimmer by a tale that got about
How, breathing hard, he popped his contacts out.
New items move fortnightly up the list;
Who has no contacts now, will not be missed.

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                    <text>A-Plus in Minus Values
Authority and servant; cynosure,
Or pro of low profile, bartenders--most-Strike soon the balance their physique suggests.
This one did not. At under four foot eight,
No one was less a Munchkin, more full scale.
We are not talking Boys' Department here.
You would not proposition that had you
Not balls enough to take on Captain Blood.
A grim comparison. He's dead of AIDS.
"If you'd just polish up that buckle, Cowboy,
I could comb my hair in it." Or, "Down
Here I see the first sign of double chins."
That presence, it is borne upon us now,
Was kept up at some cost. For height, the slats
And bricks behind the bar; the low-rise slacks
Re-tailored so the pockets do not meet
Behind. A little of a midget's rasp
Was in the studied voice from time to time:
Control can only carry one so far,
And not, perhaps, to where he cares to be.
For that, choice enters, and to have a choice
Is measure of how far Hang Loose succeeds.
One afternoon, to hang in place a pin
Spotlight, I saw him climb a ladder. Rung
By rung he rose to more and more himself.
Staircases, Freud assures us, equal sex.
That ladder, then… And when the swung light raked
A whistling, actually applauding crowd…
What is the sound of Patient Zero clapping?
Was it not invidious, Zero,
To pick on someone so near your own size?

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